Signs in John's Gospel - The Lamp Broadcast

A Certain Man Healed 143
5:1-9 (representing all in need of healing on the five porches at
the pool) foreshadowed that which the Israelites under Joshua,
over fourteen centuries earlier, had also foreshadowed. Both
foreshadowed the Israelites ultimately being healed and being able
to enter the land under Jesus (“Joshua” and “Jesus” are the same
name, Hebrew and Greek), with the theocracy to be restored to
Israel at that future time when the Jewish people have been reestablished
in the land.
And this will not only occur after the complete period of time
set forth by the full forty years but it will also occur during that
time, as seen in the sign, on the Sabbath day, the seventh day, the
seventh 1,000-year period introduced in the septenary arrangement
of time in Gen. 1:1-2:3.
(Note also that the first man healed in the Book of Acts, as a continuing
sign for the nation of Israel, had been “lame from his mother’s
womb” and he was “above forty years old” at the time this miraculous
healing occurred [Acts 3:2; 4:22].)
2) The Sabbath
The Sabbath, introduced in Scripture in Gen. 2:1-3, forms the
closing day of the septenary structure of days with which God
chose to open His Word. The Sabbath later formed the fifth and
longest of the ten commandments given to Israel under Moses (Ex.
20:8-11). The Sabbath was then later stated to be “a sign between
me [God] and the children of Israel forever” (Ex. 31:13-17).
The Israelites were to work for six days and then rest the seventh,
exactly as God was doing and would yet do at a future time,
based on the pattern set forth in the opening section of Genesis.
God, since Adam’s day, extending into present time, has been/is
working six days (6,000 years) in a subsequent restoration of a
ruined creation to that seen in the first chapter of Genesis (that
of restoring ruined man). And God, in exact accord with the
established pattern will rest a day (1,000 years) at the conclusion
of His work. And the Sabbath given to Israel, following six days
of work, reflects back on that seen in the opening two chapters
of Genesis.